J had been hankering for pho and we finally got a chance to have dinner in san francisco, proper. We went to Sunflower Vietnamese Restaurant the Mission, which is a unique restaurant, in that it has to entrances on two different streets. For whatever reason, we waked the extra 50 yards and went through the Valencia entrance, which was the one further away. It’s your standard vietnamese place, with pho, rice plates, noodles, and stir fry dishes. J got his pho hankering hankered. A nice big bowl. Excellent broth!While I would have typically gone for a vermicelli bowl or a rice plate, I went buck wild and got a crepe instead. I love these things, but I order them rarely. I’m not sure why. It’s a big ass crepe made of rice flour and coconut milk filled with sprouts, shrimp, and chicken. I think it’s typically pork instead of chicken, but this one just happened to be chicken. Which I ended up preferring. Of the crepes that I’ve had in my day, this one was excellent, but the crepe itself was a bit thick and too well cooked. So it ended up being a bit too crunchy. Typically the are crunchy, but they’re really thin, which this one wasn’t, so the cruchiness doesn’t become an issue. But in this case, with a thick and crunchy crepe, it was just a bit different. Still good though, don’t get me wrong.The plate of fixins that come with the crepe. You can make yourself little red leaf lettuce wraps by putting in hunks of crepe and then putting on nuoc mam and hunks of pickled daikon and carrots and cucumber. Delicious! The food took surprisingly long to come out (I mean for a vietnamese restaurant), but it was well worth the wait. The service was just fine and our waiter happened to be fabulously flamboyant! People must like it here, as it was packed on a weekday and there were people waiting.

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